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Sponsored by Spellbreaker by Charlie N. Holmberg

Elsie Camden learned as a girl that there are two kinds of wizards in the late Victorian world: those who can cast spells and those, like her, who can break them. Her gift is considered a crime. Nevertheless, Elsie uses her rogue spellbreaking to help the common man. She always did love the tale of Robin Hood. But when wizards start getting murdered, Elsie is compelled to uncover the truth. Can she, with the help of a handsome ally in magic, uncover the mystery before it’s too late to save everything she loves? Read Spellbreaker by Charlie N. Holmberg.

Sponsored by Henry Holt & Co.

Loved and Wanted is the passionate story of a woman’s love for her children, and a poignant and bracing look at the difficult choices women in America are forced to make every day, in a nation where policies and a cultural war on women leave them without sufficient agency over their bodies, their futures, and even their hopes for their children’s lives.

Sponsored by Ecco

When Ari Eden moves from ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn to a glitzy Miami suburb before his senior year of high school, he knows he has found a chance to reinvent himself. His new peers at the opulent Jewish academy he enrolls in are wealthy, ambitious, and shameless in their pursuit of life’s pleasures. Ari quickly finds himself pushing his own moral boundaries and falling in with the school’s most exclusive and wayward group. Influenced by their charismatic rabbi, the group begins to test their faith in unconventional ways, to potentially tragic ends.

Sponsored by Yen Press

One day, Miko suddenly started seeing grotesque beings that others couldn’t. Her response was not to run, not to face them, but to do everything she could to completely ignore them! Can she keep a straight face and continue her day-to-day life while surrounded by horrifying monsters?

Sponsored by Amazon Publishing

At age 16, Nina escaped a serial killer’s trap. Now an FBI agent, Nina becomes somewhat of a star after a video of her fighting off an attacker in a Virginia park goes viral. But legions of new fans aren’t the only ones who saw the video. The man who abducted her 11 years ago is watching too. Determined to reclaim his lost prize, he commits a grisly murder designed to pull her into the investigation… but his games are just beginning. And he’s using the internet to invite the public to play along.

Sponsored by Nothing Like I Imagined by Mindy Kaling

From New York Times bestselling author Mindy Kaling comes “Nothing Like I Imagined,” a new collection of six hilarious and personal essays. Mindy gives the inside scoop on her new role as a single mom, the perks of being her own husband, and how she deals with social anxiety even at the most glamorous A-list parties. In between, the beloved actor, writer, producer and Hollywood power-bruncher gets Kanye West’d at her best friend’s birthday, thwarts an “only in LA” crime, and learns what it means to have it all. Prime members read or listen for free.

Sponsored by Amazon Publishing

He was pushed out for standing for truth. Now he’s pushing back and standing for justice. When a wealthy young woman goes missing, former Chicago PD detective Ashe Cayne quickly uncovers secrets she’s been hiding from her family. He also fears he’ll never find her alive. Then, when her boyfriend is found murdered, Cayne will have to navigate his complicated relationships within the Chicago PD to find the missing woman, see justice done, and earn his redemption. Read the first pulse-pounding thriller in the new series from New York Times bestselling author Ian K. Smith.

Sponsored by DC

Who are the Jokers? Batman doesn’t understand how or why, but the fact is certain: the man he has spent a lifetime chasing isn’t one man at all. There are three Jokers. Now that he knows the unbelievable truth, Bruce needs real answers. Joined by Barbara Gordon and Jason Todd, two former victims of the Joker’s brutality, the Dark Knight is finally on a path to defeat the madman once and for all. Every last one of him. Geoff Johns and Jason Fabok reunite to present one of the most highly anticipated comics events in years!

Sponsored by Epic Reads

Del has had a crush on Kiera since kindergarten, and now she’s finally available. So when she volunteers at their church, Del is right behind her. Though he realizes quickly that he’s signed up for a Purity Pledge. But as he plots and plans, he neglects to ask the most important question: What does Kiera want? Lamar Giles takes on toxic masculinity and teen sexuality with a hilarious voice! Now in paperback!

Sponsored by Algonquin Books, publisher of Paper Bullets by Jeffrey H. Jackson

“A Nazi resistance story like none you’ve ever heard.” —Hampton Sides, author of In the Kingdom of Ice

In 1940, on the German-occupied island of Jersey, two women waged a daring anti-Nazi campaign. Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe (better remembered today by their noms de plume, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore) drew on their skills as Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute “paper bullets”—wicked insults against Hitler, calls to rebel, and subversive fictional dialogues that demoralized the Nazi troops. The untold true story of this courageous couple is an inspiring lesson about love and resistance.